From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 18 16:51:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA17063 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:51:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM ([198.138.38.206]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17052 Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:51:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA23997; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 19:51:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 19:51:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: Julian Elischer cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUP of CVS files.. (how to?) In-Reply-To: <199601180648.WAA22374@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Julian Elischer wrote: > > I must be silly, but after a look around www.freebsd.org > I can't find out how to sup the cvs sources.. dont feel bad. i have a hell of a time dealing with this. finally peter wemm gave me the magic words. 1. using cvs-supfile, sup base, include, share (perhaps sys) (setting up sup has several steps covered in the sup documentation and handbook with a little cookbook recipe like this one.) 2. sup whichever target(s) you want to work on (say bin and sbin) 3. cd /somewhere 4. set the CVSROOT enviroment variable to point at the cvs tree. the directory that contains: sup, src, and CVSROOT 5. cvs checkout -P get list of modules with 'cvs checkout -s | more' jmb Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG